culling

"Thorough culling" to reduce the number of bears is the only effective way to reduce the risk for local people, researcher Ohnishi said.

“Doing this rapid culling of your workforce, it’s very risky,” he said.

Avian flu has spread globally in recent years, leading to mass culling of poultry, some human deaths, and rising egg prices.

“Isabelle,” he said, “this is just its subtle way of culling the human population.”

Now, timber interests are aligning with environmentalists in favor of culling the owls.